Ellen DeGeneres slammed for photo with African children

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08/06/2018

Ellen DeGeneres is getting some serious heat for posting photos alongside African children during a trip to Rwanda.

The TV personality took to Instagram to document her travels in Africa with wife Portia de Rossi, where she is celebrating her 60th birthday, as well as beginning work on a wildlife conservation project.

Some asked the Ellen host to put herself in their shoes: "Africans don't travel to your country to take pictures with your half-a-million homeless people," one reply read.

"Please do better. We are no one's charity."

However, many fans have rushed to defend DeGeneres, reminding critics she spent much of her African vacation setting up The Ellen DeGeneres Wildlife Fund, which wife De Rossi gifted to her as a birthday present.

"That's reality people!" one fan wrote on Instagram.

"She has a kind heart. All you judgemental pricks step away from your screens and make [the world] a better place as Ellen is trying to do every single day....."